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Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

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Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Manage Azure App Service Deployments with Deployment Slots by Chris Pietschmann
How Azure Functions Pricing Works by Chris Pietschmann
Top 4 reasons for using Azure Security Center for partner security solutions by Yair Tor
Creating an end-to-end IoT solution using the Microsoft Azure IoT Starter Kit w/ Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi and Microsoft Azure by Lee Stott
Creating a Calendar App using PowerApps by CarlosAg
How can I use Azure AD Domain Services? by markga
So what can you do with your Microbit and the Azure Cloud? by Lee Stott
Artifacts and guidance for Azure DevTest Labs by Willy P. Schaub
Hello Blinky 2.0 with the Raspberry Pi 3 and LCD using Azure by FitGeekGirl
Event Hubs and .NET Standard by John Taubensee
Simpler Azure Management Libraries for Java – Beta 3 by Asir Selvasingh
Deploying to HockeyApp from VSTS by Daniel Meixner
Manual failover of Azure File storage by devkeydet
Azure Data Lake U-SQL September 2016 Updates: OUTER UNION, Set operations by name, FILE and PARTITION intrinsic functions and more! by MRys
Transport Agnostic Cloud to Device Messaging with IoT Hub by YTechie
Microsoft’s true Hybrid Cloud: consistent, not just connected by Mark Jewett
Azure Stream Analytics query testing now available in the new portal by Ryan CrawCour
Deep Neural Network in Azure via Cortana Intelligence and ML Team
Temporal Tables are generally available in Azure SQL Database by Borko Novakovic
Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET by Asir Selvasingh
GEP uses Azure and SQL Database to expand global reach by Guy Haycock
Azure Data Lake Analytics: More Compute and More Control by Omid Mola
Azure IoT and Arduino – Part1 by Scott Klein
Microsoft Common Controls Hub provides uncommon convenience by Alice Rison
Introducing the Team Data Science Process from Microsoft via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
TIBCO DataSynapse comes to the Azure Marketplace by Matthew Thomson
Experience Updates to the Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics Portal by Saveen Reddy

Events

Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.

Join us online for Microsoft’s developer event, Connect(); 2016 November 16th–17th 2016 by Lee Stott
Azure Backup hosts Ask Me Anything session by Trinadh Kotturu

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

Introduction to the Opsgility Cloud Sandbox via Opsgility
Ramping up Predictive Maintenance using Machine Learning with Val Fontama via Channel 9
Creating IoT apps for the Xbox via Channel 9
Episode 216: Azure News Recap with Chris and Haishi October 2016 | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
First Look at the new SQL Server Data Migration Assistant | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Resiliency, the magic of load balancers | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
Bots as the Next UX: Expanding Your Apps with Conversation | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Matt Winkler

Audio / Podcasts

To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:

Episode 148 – Cognitive Services via The Azure Podcast
Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady via Hanselminutes
Distributed Caching with Iqbal Khan via DotNetRocks
Episode 160 | SharePoint Framework with Microsoft’s Mike Ammerlaan via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Blockly Windows 10 IoT by Greg Duncan
Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers by Scott Hanselman
SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers by Perry Skountrianos
Microsoft, The Security Company by Brad Sams
Getting Started with Windows Containers by Julien Corioland
Using SSIS to load 1TB data into SQL Server in 30 mins, with simplified settings by DionYe

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About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.